Comparing Pickup Truck Bed Covers

One of the most often chosen pickup accessories must be pickup truck bed covers. The thing is that these come in a real puzzling variety of types. The best tonneau cover depends on several factors including what you haul, the appearance you prefer and especially how much you want to spend and how much you like discounts.

Truck tonneau covers range from the least expensive soft roll top lids to quite pricey retractable covers with remoter control open and close. Funny thing is even the least expensive bed covers accomplish much of what you can get from a cover.

Simply putting your pickup bed under cover from the weather helps protect the bed and it's contents. What's more, putting what's in the bed out of sight goes far to protect the cargo from those who might tamper with what you have.

Extang truck bed covers are noted for being best sellers in the less expensive covers, especially the soft covers, though they make other designs too. They offer for example a tri fold covers that is a hard top that really is quite secure as well as being affordable.

Other companies making pickup bed covers that roll up include Lund, Truxport, LeBra, Vanish and others. Soft covers make it easy and simple to access the entire bed by just rolling the cover out of the way plus cargo of any size fits with no problem.

Another option is the hard fiberglass tonneau like you get from Gaylord and others. One way to get a hard top comes as the hinged cover that tilts up and back to basically turn the pickup box to a giant locking truck. Especially valuable if you wish to lock away valuable goods, these tilt lids do limit you to hauling shorter items, since the lid won't close on anything higher than the bed sides. Undercover also puts out a top tilting covers but it's made of light modern polymers rather than fiberglass.

Another way to get the hard cover an still have better bed access is the folding tonneau cover. That can be either soft material or more likely the material is hard plastic that folds on itself and opens the whole bed, or most of it, to let you get at anything in the bed itself. Look at BakFlip, Extang and Torzatop for these tonneau covers for trucks.

At the top of the line find the retractable hard, metal pickup truck bed covers available with remote control. Pace Edwards and BAK make these as do others. Remote access plus a sliding aluminum lid makes for full bed access but also for a secure locking box at the back of any truck.